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Cornea and External Disease Fellowship

Program Description

The Cornea Service at the University of Michigan is a consulting service in cornea, external disease, and refractive surgery and is comprised of seven faculty members. We offer two one-year fellowship positions per year. Approximately 300 keratoplasties (penetrating, lamellar, and endothelial), 20 keratoprostheses, 300 refractive surgeries, and >1000 cataract surgeries are performed annually. Each fellow is granted 20% protected research time to pursue the wealth of research opportunities at Kellogg. The Cornea Service funds travel to one national meeting for each fellow.

The Cornea Service offers experience with a wide variety of technology available to corneal and refractive surgeons including an excimer and Intralase laser (developed at our institution), confocal microscope, PROSE scleral lenses, and crosslinking technology.

This year, one fellowship position will have supplemental salary and research funding support. This will not take away from the priority of the clinical fellowship but will be a more directed research effort with existing research time. The Eversight supplemental fellowship support requires a supplemental application (pdf) - download to your desktop. View a full description of the fellowship (pdf).